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It’s time to take the offensive yellowface of “The Mikado” off the stage
I recently blogged about a video produced by the City of Los Angeles – using taxpaper money – that was originally produced with good intentions: Explaining the importance of recycling water. But to make its point, the video used a ghastly, stereotypical caricature of geishas played by non-Asians with painted faces wearing kimonos, including one [...]
City of Los Angeles produces racist “geisha” video abt recycling water
Wow, seriously? Who came up with this brilliant idea? Then who worked on it and who the hell approved it?
Hip-hop artist Jason Chu’s spoken-word tribute to Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Powerful stuff: Hip-hop artist Jason Chu has posted “A Thousand Names,” a spoken-word tribute to Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month that’s worth seeing more than once to absorb the flow of poetry and the meaning of his words. He nails the story of family dynamics, immigrant hopes and dreams and generational passage of culture [...]
